Academics: Library & Archive
Emma (Hart) Willard Collection, 1809–1994
Publications |
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| Emma (Hart) Willard published a great many textbooks, articles, letters and poems during her lifetime. Many of these publications related to her interest in the higher education of women in this country and abroad. The most important of these was The Plan for Improving Female Education upon which she based her teaching at her school in Waterford and later at the Troy Female Seminary. | ||
Books and Pamphlets |
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| Box | Folder | Description |
| 5A | 11 | An Address to the Public: Particularly to the Members of the Legislature of New York, Proposing a Plan for Improving Female Education, 1819. |
| 5A | 12 | An Address to the Public: Particularly to the Members of the Legislature of New York, Proposing a Plan for Improving Female Education, 1819. [photocopy] |
| 6 | 28 | A Plan for Improving Female Education by Emma Willard and Mrs. Willard's Life and Work in Middlebury, by Ezra Brainerd; Marietta, Ga.: Larlin Corp., 1987. |
| 2 | 1 | Geography for Beginners, or the Instructor's Assistant, in Giving First Lessons from Maps..., Hartford: Oliver D. Cooke, 1826. |
| 8 | 4 | Ancient Atlas, to Accompany The Universal Geography. Hartford: Belknap and Hamersley [n.d.] |
| 8 | 4 | Ancient Atlas, to Accompany the Universal Geography. Hartford: Oliver D. Cooke & Co., 1827. |
| 8 | 4 | Ancient Atlas, to Accompany the Universal Geography. Hartford: Belknap & Hamersley, 1828. |
| 12 | 22 | A Series of Maps to Willard's History of the United States, or, Republic of America. New York: White, Gallaher, & White, 1828. |
| 8 | 4 | Ancient Atlas, to Accompany the Universal Geography. Hartford: Oliver D. Cooke, 1830. |
| 8 | 4 | Ancient Atlas, to Accompany the Universal Geography. Hartford: Oliver D. Cooke, 1832. |
| 8 | 4 | Ancient Atlas,` to Accompany the Universal Geography. Hartford: John Beach, 1836. |
| 12 | 19 | A Series of Maps to an Abridgment of the History of the United States, Hartford: White, Gallaher, and White, 1831. |
| 2 | 2 | Advancement of Female Education: or, A Series of Addresses, in Favor of Establishing at Athens, in Greece, A Female Seminary..., Troy: Printed by Norman Tuttle, 1833. |
| 5A | 22 | Report of Mrs. Emma Willard, corresponding secretary of the Troy Societyfor the advancement of Female Education in Greece. Read by the Reverend S. B. Paddock, in Christ Church, Norwich, on the 20th of August, 1834. Norwich: Printed by J. Dunham, 1834. (Micropublished in American Poetry, 1609-1900: Segment II. New Haven, CT: Research Publications Inc., 1975) [photocopy] |
| 11 | 1 | The Good Ship Charlemagne. Boston: J. Hancock, 1836. (Published originally in The Juvenile Miscellany, 4(2) (February 1836), ed. by Sarah Josepha Hale) [photocopy - Original at Vermont Historical Society] |
| 12 | 17 | Atlas, To Accompany A System of Universal History. Hartford: F. J. Huntington, 1836, c1835. |
| 2 | 33 | Address to the Pupils of the Washington Female Seminary. Pittsburgh:printed by George Parkin, 1844. [photocopy - original at Washington and Jefferson College] |
| 2 | 3 | A Treatise on the Motive Powers Which Produce the Circulation of the Blood; New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1846. |
| 2 | 4 | An Appeal to the Public, Especially Those concerrned in Education, Against Wrong and Injury Done by Marcius Willson; New York: A. S. Barnes, 1847. [photocopy] |
| 2 | 5 | Answer to Marcius Willson's Second Reply: or Second Appeal to the Public. New York: A. S. Barnes, 1847. |
| 8 | 12 | Map, from Last Leaves of American History. New York: G. P. Putnam, 1849. |
| 12 | 23 | Respiration and its effects; more especially in relation to Asiatic Cholera and other sinking diseases. New York: Huntington & Savage, 1849. |
| 2 | 6 | Memorial of Emma Willard and Others Relative to Female Education. In Assembly, March 4, 1852. New York State. Assembly Document No. 74. [photocopy] |
| Shelved | Last Leaves of American History. New York: A. S. Barnes & Co., 1853.. | |
| 12 | 18 | Last Periods of Universal History. New York: A. S. Barnes & Co., 1855. Late American History: Containing a Full Account of the Courage, |
| 13 | 28 | Conduct, and Success of John C. Fremont; by Which Through Many Hardships and Sufferings, He Became the explorer and the Hero Of California. New York: A.S. Barnes & Co., 1856. [This is Last Leaves of American History re-packaged] |
| 12 | 21 | History of the Republic of America, from 1850-1860. New York: A. S. Barnes & Burr, 1860. |
| 11 | 7 | Morals for the Young; or, Good Principles Instilling Wisdom, 1857. |
| 2 | 15 | Theory of Circulation by Respiration: Synopsis of Its Principles and History (New York: Francis Hart & Co., 1861) |
| 2 | 8 | Via Media: A Peaceful and Permanent Settlement to the Slavery Question; Washington: Charles H. Anderson, 1862. |
| 11 | 31 | History of the American Civil War; to Accompany the Larger and the Abridged History of the Republic (n.p., 1867) [photocopy - original at the Western Reserve Historical Society] |
| Flat File | Willard's English Chronographer: or Chronology of Great Britain. New York: A. S. Barnes & Co., 1849. | |
| Flat File | Willard's Map of Time: A Companion to the Historic Guide. New York: A.S. Barnes & Co., 1846. | |
Articles and Memorials |
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| Box | Folder | Description |
| 5A | 13 | "Memorial of Emma Willard, Principal of the Troy Female Seminary", January 23, 1823 |
| 12 | 40 | "An Address to the Public, particularly to the Members of the Legislature of New York, proposing a Plan for Female Education." [introduction by George Combe?] Phrenological Journal and Miscellany 8 (34):45-58 (December 1832) [photocopy] |
| 2 | 9 | "Universal Terms-Disputes Concerning Them and Their Causes" American Journal of Science and Arts 23:1 (1833) [photocopy] |
| 2 | 25 | "Mrs. Willard's Address" The Ladies' Magazine and Literary Gazette 6:232-236 (May 1833) [photocopy] |
| 12 | 27 | "Mrs. Willard's Address, Read by the Rev. Mr. Peck, at a meeting held at St. Johns Church, Troy, on the evening of Jan. 8, 1833, whose object, as expressed by previous notices, was to interest the public in behalf of female education in Greece." The Troy Press, Extra (Jan. 17, 1833) |
| 2 | 26 | "Tribute to the Memory of Miss Vail, of Troy, N.Y." The Ladies' Magazine and Literary Gazette 6:357-358 (August 1833) [photocopy] |
| 2 | 28 | "Elizabeth Cass" The Ladies' Magazine and Literary Gazette 6:417-418 (August 1833) [photocopy] |
| 2 | 27 | "Places of Education" The Ladies' Magazine and Literary Gazette 6(9): 385-388 (September 1833) [photocopy] |
| 2 | 29 | "The Experiment" American Ladies' Magazine 7:447-462 (October 1834). [photocopy] |
| 2 | 30 | "The Palace of Miracles" American Ladies' Magazine 8:80-83 (Feb. 1835) [photocopy] |
| 11 | 20 | "Preface" in Progressive Education, Commencing with the Infant, by Madame Necker de Saussure (Boston: William D. Ticknor, 1835), p. 11. [photocopy] |
| 2 | 31 | "Female Education: Principles Contained in Stewart's Philosophy of the Mind, Applied to Show the Importance of Cultivating the Female Mind" American Ladies' Magazine 9:42-58 (January 1836). [photocopy] |
| 2 | 32 | "Thoughts to be Remembered" American Ladies' Magazine 9:212 (April 1836) [photocopy] |
| 2 | 10 | "There is Good in Beauty" The Lady's Book 14:89-90 (February 1837). [photocopy] [Also available: Accessible Archives. On-line. Internet 21 April 2000. Available WWW: http://accessible.palinet.org/accessible/text/godeys/00000031] |
| 2 | 11 | "Berlin. Kensington, or Third School Society [Report]" Connecticut Common School Journal: 2:241-244 (June 1840) [photocopy] |
| 2 | 48 | "Map Drawing" Connecticut Common School Journal 4(2): 40-42 (January 1, 1842) [photocopy] |
| 2 | 49 | "The Relation of Females and Mothers Especially to the Cause of Common School Improvement" Connecticut Common School Journal 4: 64-66 (March 15, 1842) [photocopy] |
| 2 | 34 | "Address of Mrs. Emma Willard, To the Gentlemen Composing the Convention of County and Town Superintendents of New York, read to them by her at the house of L. H. Redfield, Esq., where she was a guest" District School Journal of the State of New York 6(1):116-119 (April 1845). [photocopy] |
| 12 | 37 | "The Relation of Females, and Mothers Especially, to the cause of Common School Improvement" Teachers' Advocate 2 (12):138 (November 26, [photocopy] |
| 12 | 42 | "Mrs. Willard's Report on Female Teachers" The Teachers' Advocate, and Journal of Education 3 (2):17-19 (October 1, 1847) [photocopy] |
| 6 | 9 | "Mrs. Willard On Normal Institutes" in Teachers' Institutes, or TemporaryNormal Schools; Their Origin and Progress, by Samuel N. Sweet (Utica, N. Y.: H. H. Hawley, 1848), p. 128-136. [photocopy] |
| 13 | 8 | "Tribute to the Memory of Mrs. Emma White" The Northern Budget [Troy, NY], Feb. 24, 1848, p. [2]. [original filed in newspaper clippings file; Emma Hart White was Emma Willard's niece] |
| 2 | 35 | "Mrs. Willard's Report on Female Teachers, To The Teachers of the New York State Association" The Advocate of Moral Reform and Family Guardian 15(3): 17-18 (Feb. 1. 1849 [from the Teacher's Advocate, October 1847] [photocopy] |
| 12 | 12 | "Address of Mrs. Emma Willard, to the New York State Association of Teachers, Auburn, August 3, 1848" The District School Journal of the State of New York 10(2):21-23 (May 1849) [photocopy] |
| 13 | 19 | "Review of Books" Patapsco Young Ladies' Magazine 1 (2):31-32 (April 1850) [photocopy] |
| 11 | 10 | "Sketch of Mrs. Emma Willard's Address to the Columbian Association of Teachers, Washington, District of Columbia; Spoken at the Smithsonian Institute, Feb. 9th, 1850" Patapsco Young Ladies' Magazine 1(2): 29-31 (April 1850) [photocopy] |
| 13 | 1 | "What to Teach" Godey's Lady's Book 44:295 (September 1852) [photocopy] [also available: Accessible Archives. On-line. Internet, 24 May 2002. Available WWW: http://www.accessible.com] |
| 12 | 16 | "Female Education" New York Teacher 1:52-54 (1853) [photocopy] |
| 2 | 12 | "Address on the Time and Teaching of Little Children" New York Teacher 2:108-111, 136-141, 202-205 (1854) [photocopy] |
| 2 | 23 | "The Schoolmistress" (a series of articles in the New York Teacher, 3(5): 252 (Feb. 1855); March 1855, p. 318-321; April 1855, p. 29-30; May 1855 p. 68-70; June 1855, p. 138-140; July 1855, p. 236-238; Sept. 1855, p. 366-368. [photocopies] |
| 8 | 11 | "Reply to an Article published in the N. Y. Observer of August 6th, signed H. A. B. on 'Public Examinations in Female Schools" (a series of articles in the Troy Daily Whig: October 2, 1857, p. [2]; Article II: Oct. 5, 1857, p. [2]; Article III: October 10, 1857, p. [2]; Article IV, part 1: October 20, 1857; Article IV, part 2, Nov. 13, 1857, p. [2]) [photocopies] |
| 11 | 18 | [Excerpts] from Swift, Samuel History of the Town of Middlebury, in theCounty of Addison, Vermont: To Which is Prefixed a Statistical and Historical Account of the County, Written at the Request of the Historical Society of Middlebury (Middlebury: A. H. Copeland, 1859), p. 392-397. [photocopy] |
| 2 | 16 | "Universal Peace" in Our Country, edited by Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps (Baltimore: Printed by John D. Toy, 1864), p. 347-356. [photocopy] |
| 2 | 36 | "On The Name America" in Our Country, edited by Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps (Baltimore: Printed by John D. Toy, 1864), p. 186-191 [photocopy] |
Letters |
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| Box | Folder | Description |
| 11 | 43 | "Communicated" [Letter from the Committee of Arrangements of Middlebury to Emma Willard, July 5, 1816; and Letter from Emma Willard to the Committee of Arrangements, July 6, 1816] [Unidentified newspaper] |
| 2 | 20 | To John D. Willard, Dec. 10, 1829 [accompanied by a pair of handknit woolen stockings, on the occasion of his marriage] (Reprinted in several publications) |
| 2 | 37 | "To our respected Countrywomen" The Ladies' Magazine and Literary Gazette 6:270-272 (June 1833) [photocopy] |
| 2 | 38 | Letter [Dec. 25, 1835] to the Editor [Sarah Josepha Hale] American Ladies' Magazine 9:76 (February 1836) [photocopy] |
| 11 | 39 | "Female College of Bogota" [Letters to Sarah Josepha Hale (1837?), to and from José María Salazar (1827-1828), and to Simón Bolívar (1827)] The Lady's Book 14: 279 (June 1837) [photocopy] [also Accessible Archives. On-line. Internet, 18 April 2000. Available WWW: http://www.accessible.com] |
| 2 | 17 | Letter, Addressed As a Circular to the Members of the Willard Association for the Mutual Improvement of Female Teachers...,Troy: Published by Elias Gates, 1838. [photocopy] |
| 11 | 42 | Letter [July 28, 1838] to Thomas Allen, Spirit of the Times 8:217 (August 25, 1838) [typescript] |
| 2 | 11 | "Proposed Plan of Improvement: Letter to Henry Barnard" [May 17, 1840] Connecticut Common School Journal 2:243-244 (June 1840) [photocopy] |
| 2 | 46 | Letter [September 2, 1840] to Henry Barnard. Connecticut Common School Journal 3:30-31 (November 15, 1840) [photocopy] |
| 2 | 47 | Letter [September 10, 1840] to [Henry Barnard] Connecticut Common School Journal 3:54 (December 1840) [photocopy] |
| 2 | 18 | Letter to the Editor, The Trojan Sketchbook, (Troy: Young and Hartt, 1846), p. 162-168. [photocopy] |
| 12 | 36 | Letter [February 27, 1847] to Edward Cooper. Teachers' Advocate 2 (29): 342-343 (March 25, 1847) [photocopy] |
| 2 | 19 | "Letter to Dupont De L'eure on the Political Position of Women" American Literary Magazine 2(4): 246-254 (April 1848) [photocopy]; also published in pamphlet form in Albany, by Joel Munsell, 1848. [photocopy] |
| 12 | 11 | "The Teacher's Reward" [letter to Edward Cooper, editor, Feb. 27. 1841.] District School Journal of the State of New York 9(4):62 (July 1848) [photocopy] |
| 13 | 33 | Letter of Endorsement, Chestnut Street Female Seminary Catalog, 1850. |
| 11 | 38 | Letter [December 1, 1851] to Mrs. Willard from Dr. Samuel A Cartwright and Letter from Emma Willard [December 11, 1851] to Dr. Samuel A. Cartwright, Boston Medical And Surgical Journal 45(23): 463-465 (January 7, 1852) [photocopy] |
| 13 | 6 | Hale, Sarah J. "Doings of the Ladies' Medical Missionary Society" Godey's Lady's Book 46:551+ (June 1853) [Extract of Letter to Ladies Medical Missionary Society from Emma Willard] [photocopy] [also Accessible Archives. On-line. Internet 24 May 2002. AvailableWWW: http://www.accessible.com.] |
| 2 | 14 | "Mrs. Willard's Report on the Normal School" [Letter to Frances Gillette, October 24, 1855] Connecticut Common School Journal 3:106-108 (April 1856) [photocopy] |
| 2 | 40 | To Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, March 1858 (Reprinted in Christian Households, by Almira H. L. Phelps; New York: printed by Billin and Brother, 1858; p. 75-76) [photocopy] |
| 2 | 39 | Letter [Sept. 10, 1840] from Mrs. Emma Willard, on a "Proposed Plan of a Female Association to Improve Schools", American Journal of Education 41 (new series, no. 16): 613 (December 1865) [photocopy] |
Published Poetry |
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| Box | Folder | Description |
| 13 | 43 | "La Fayette's Welcome at the Female Seminary in Troy" Written by the Principal, and Sung by the Pupils. [1825] |
| 13 | 45 | “This Work is Affectionately Dedicated to My Mother, Mrs. Lydia
Heart,” in History of the United States, or Republic of America …,” by Emma Willard (New York: White, Gallaher & White, 1828), p. [ii]. Photocopy. [the book is in Special Collection, EW, E 178.1 .W696 1828] |
| 1 | 4 | The Fulfilment Of A Promise; By Which Poems, by Emma Willard Are Published, And Affectionately Inscribed To Her Past and Present Pupils. New York: White, Gallaher & White, 1831. |
| 11 | 2 | "Hymn II" Written for the Celebration of the Ladies' Society for the Advancement of Female Education in Greece, Troy, August 8, 1833. [small broadside, original at the Vermont Historical Society -SMALL BSIDE 245 H996 1833] [photocopy] |
| 14 | 9 | “Ocean Hymn”, “Lafayette”, and “Dirge”. Southern Literary Messenger 1 (10):538-539 (June 1835) [Copy] [Also available: University of Michigan Digital Library, Making of America Journal Articles. On-line. Internet, 12 November 2004. Available WWW: http://www.hti.umich.edu |
| 2 | 41 | "The Bouquet" American Ladies' Magazine 8:582 (October 1835) [photocopy] |
| 13 | 42 | "My Own Sunny France: A Much Admired Song for the Piano Forte." Poetry by Mrs. Emma Willard, Composed & Respectfully Dedicated to Mademoiselle P.G. de Fontevieux, by John C. Andrews. Troy: Published by John C. Andrews, c1837. |
| 13 | 11 | "The Fireman" [printed on a broadside] N. Tuttle, printer: January 8, 1846. |
| 2 | 44 | "A Glimpse of the World of Spirits" in The Trojan Sketchbook, ed. by Abba A. Goddard (Troy: Young & Hartt, 1846), p. 169-170. [photocopy] |
| 2 | 45 | "Lines" in The Trojan Sketchbook, ed. by Abba A. Goddard (Troy: Young & Hartt, 1846), p. 169-170. [photocopy] |
| 11 | 16 | "Men oddly view, as common things" [first line] Printed, Troy Female Seminary, June 16, 1849. |
| 11 | 13 | "The Word of Life" Patapsco Young Ladies' Magazine 1 (3): 16 (July 1850) [photocopy] |
| 1 | 5 | "Parting Words" Troy: Troy Daily Whig Print [1852?] |
| 8 | 3 | "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep" Music composed by J. P. Knight. (Boston: Oliver Ditson, 1853) |
| 10 | 47 | "The Fireman" New York Teacher (March 1855) p. 318. [photocopy] |
| 11 | 12 | "Bride-Stealing: A Tale of New England's Middle Age" in Poets of Connecticut, ed. by Charles W. Everest (New York: S. A. Rollo, 1860), p. 153-162. [photocopy] |
| 2 | 42 | "National Hymn", reprinted in Our Country, by Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps. Baltimore: printed by John D. Toy, 1864, p. 99-100. [photocopy] |
| 2 | 43 | Quotation from a poem in memory of her Father, reprinted in Letter To A Son on Christian Belief, by Samuel Hart. (Baltimore: Charles Harvey, 1875), p. 4. [photocopy] |
| 13 | 15 | [Untitled] Written in the album of Virginia Anderson (a Troy Female Seminary student in 1835); reprinted in The Third Annual Report of the Emma Willard Association, November 1893, called Chicago Reunion of the Emma Willard Association of Troy Female Seminary (Brooklyn, NY: Press of the Brooklyn Eagle, 1893), p. 38. [photocopy] |
| 2 | 13 | “Oh, what’s that lordly dish so rare” [poem fragment], reprinted in Yankee Peddlers of Early America, by J. R. Dolan (New York: Bramhall House, 1964), p. 145. [photocopy] |
Miscellaneous |
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| Box | Folder | Description |
| 2 | 21 | Photo of the Title Page and copy of inscription from History of the United States... |
| 10 | 1 | Title Page and Prefacio de la Autora (Preface by the Author) from Compendio de la Historia de los Estados Unidos, o Republica de America (New York: A. S. Barnes, 1852). |
| 2 | 22 | Lists of Emma Willard Publications |
